Reviews
monmon
Ever since 1994, when he burst onto the world music scene with one of his landmark songs ‘Adékalom’, Danyèl Waro...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: August/2017
Right at Home: Live at Mount Hooley
Dan Walsh is a busy man. Hot on the heels of his excellent solo record earlier in 2017, Verging on...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2017
The Full English
This album is one segment of an ambitious project from the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society), drawing together...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Round & Round
County Antrim-based Ciaran O'Kane's debut album is a fine and muscular release. Opening with the traditional track ‘The Banks of...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2019
Rhythm Revolution
This album of raw, garage-tinged 1970s Afro-funk comes with the most extraordinary back story. Born Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi in 1939...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022
Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans
Bilja Krstic & Bistrik Orchestra
ARC Music is developing into one of the foremost record labels releasing new Balkan recordings – having issued excellent efforts...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2017
Exil-Exile
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis & En Chordais
I've had time for composer and oud player Kyriakos Kalaitzidis since I first encountered his ensemble/record label En Chordais in...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Aynama-Rtama
This is a groundbreaking recording. We’re well used to hearing fusions of Arab and Western popular music as pretty one-sided...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2015
Pools of Light
It's immediately apparent that Jessica Moss, former violinist of art-rock indie band Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, knows her...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2017
Mosese
The man behind BBE's latest Tabansi Records re-release, recorded in Nigeria in 1979, hails from the Congo basin: Lumingu Puati...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: December/2019
